Raffine. Reanimator stax by Tyrant_M

Format: Commander

Commander: Raffine, Scheming Seer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 61

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Esper Reanimator and Midrange strategy commanded by Raffine, Scheming Seer. The game plan curves cheap, evasive utility creatures and hatebears on Turns 1 and 2 to disrupt opposing development. Deploying Raffine on Turn 3 enables massive connive triggers during combat, filtering cards and directly discarding high-mana bombs like Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, Toxrill, the Corrosive, Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, and Valgavoth, Terror Eater. On Turn 4, the deck resolves efficient reanimation spells to put these game-warping monsters onto the battlefield ahead of curve. A dense suite of free and 1-mana interaction, such as Force of Negation, Deadly Rollick, and Voice of Victory, shields the reanimation window and protects against sweepers. The deck steadily grows its board through connive counters and heavy combat swings, closing out the table by Turn 7 under asymmetric stax locks.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Ainok Strike Leader
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Ayara's Oathsworn
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Cynical Loner
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Doorkeeper Thrull
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hushbringer
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Kataki, War's Wage
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mausoleum Wanderer
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
  • 1 Oona's Blackguard
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Psychic Frog
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Restart Sequence
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stormscape Familiar
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Unburial Rites
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Willie Lumpkin, Postman
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow